If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations). says: ‘Ranking right up there with Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!, and The Wizard of Gore as one of Lewis’s best films, The Gore Gore Girls will go down in history as the movie in which The Godfather of Gore managed to “out-gore” himself.’” (film notes by John Epperson). John Waters famously worships Herschell Gordon Lewis-and you should too. The Gore Gore Girls was the only film Lewis submitted to the MPAA, and of course it was slapped with an X rating. And Lewis laughed too he showed up at the club for his first public speaking appearance! The Gore Gore Girls is about, you guessed it, go-go girls at Henny Youngman’s nightclub who are brutally murdered in Henny-color. The torment was removed by laughing at the films at Club 57. The promotional materials for his films-and the movies themselves, with titles such as Color Me Blood Red and *Two Thousand Maniacs!*-tormented young people across the South beginning with Blood Feast in 1963. Although a purveyor of ‘nudie cuties,’ Lewis was known as The Godfather of Gore. “Although Herschell Gordon Lewis did make three more films between 20, The Gore Gore Girls in 1972 was the end of his most, shall we say…productive period.
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